Vicky Forman is a Senior Research Director in the Risk, Quality and Network Design Team. Vicky advises on the topic of network design for supply chain to help companies optimize cost, improve service and improve resilience among others despite continually shifting operating conditions. This advice covers the best practices for people, process and technology that support in making data driven decisions about the supply chain network. Supporting clients as they deliver supply chain network design projects and as they build up the processes and skills to transform network design from a project to an ongoing capability that is able to deliver more value.
Vicky has 10 years of experience in completing network design studies and guiding and coaching clients to complete their own studies before joining Gartner. Working with varied industries such as consumer goods, manufacturing, retail and distribution has given her a good understanding of the common challenges faced by these industries and ability to apply solutions from one industry to another.
LLamasoft, Senior Supply Chain Design Consultant, 7 years
Marks and Spencer, Logistics Analyst, 3 years
Manufacturing Strategy
Logistics and Fulfillment Operations Excellence
Organization Structure, Design and Implementation
Supply Chain Strategy, Alignment and Execution
BSc, Maths Operational Research Statistics and Economics, University of Warwick
Best practices in completing network design studies to optimise cost, service, resilience and support growth.
Network design to understand tradeoffs involved in warehouse location selection.
Common barriers to successful network design studies and how to overcome them
Utilising scenario planning for optimizing the supply chain given interdependencies across the network.
How to set up or expand internal capabilities for network design studies. Including tools, consultants, team structures and skills.